Unit 1: Let’s Stay Safe

• Safe versus unsafe

• Safety rules and laws

• Common hazards

• Emergencies: getting help and acting quickly

• Protecting the brain

• Acting responsibly

• Refusal skills

• Predicting consequences of safe and unsafe actions

• Practicing personal safety routines

Unit 2: How You Think

• Major parts of the brain

• Functions of the brain

• Ways the brain handles the body’s needs

• Five senses

• Different ways that people can be smart

• Ways people learn and remember

• Influences on how we think

• Different patterns of thinking

• Thinking skills and decision making

• Protecting your brain

• Safe routines to protect your brain from harm

Unit 3: The Wide World of Food

• Choosing healthy food

• Healthy foods at mealtime

• Using MyPlate

• Role of nutrients in the body

• Giving high priority to eating foods with nutritional value

• What influences your food choices

• Effects of healthful and unhealthful foods on the body

• Guidelines for food handling and storage

• Healthful snacks

• Breakfast as an important meal

Unit 4: Your Heart Small But Strong

• Function of the heart and the hardest working machine

• Healthy heart functioning

• Recording your pulse

• Oxygenated versus deoxygenated blood

• Healthful diet and exercise leads to a healthy heart

• Problems people can have with their hearts

• Making choices to protect your heart

• Consequences of not getting daily exercise

• The heart as a symbol of love and caring

• Caring for others makes you feel good about yourself

• Being kind in a variety of different situations

Unit 5: When I Feel Afraid

• Common causes of being afraid

• Tolerance and helpfulness for someone who is afraid

• Coping positively with fears

• Physical effects of fear on the body

• Positive benefits of fear as an emotion

• Signs of fear in your body

• Five real dangers you could face

• Responsibility in a risk situation

• Real dangers and safe behaviors

• Private parts and the right to have your body private

• Respect your body by saying “no”

• Personal safety skills in situations that threaten safety

• Safe, unsafe, and confusing touches and secrets

Unit 6: Babies and How You Grew

• How a newborn becomes an older child and then an adult

• Doing things better as you get older

• How you grow and change as you become older

• Definition of family

• Role of the family in growth and development

• Consequences of a family member who doesn’t show responsibility

• Changes that can happen in families and the impact of these changes

• How can you help your family

• Definition of the word unique

• Respect the talents and differences of others

• Qualities that make people special and unique

Unit 7: Drugs are Dangerous

• Various types of drugs: nicotine, alcohol and street drugs

• Alcoholic versus non-alcoholic beverages

• What is and not a medicine

• Pharmacists, nurses, and doctors are important people

• Effects of taking medicine not for you

• Why drugs do not solve problems other than the illnesses prescribed for

• Communicating thoughts and feelings

• Positive ways to solve problems

• Decision making skills to avoid unhealthy behaviors

• Drug free and safe community

• Why being a good citizen is important

• Saying “no” to gang involvement

• Effects of drugs on a community

Unit 8: Germs! They Can Make You Sick

• Germs, where you find them, and what they can do to you

• Setting a goal to care about your body and prevent germs from entering it

• Ways germs can enter your body

• Being sick versus being well

• How different germs spread

• Routines for healthy living

• White blood cells and their job

• Family plan to prevent spreading germs

• Things to do and not to do when you are sick

• Community helpers that prevent germs from spreading

• Rules and laws to help spread of germs

• Decision making skills to follow safety routines

Unit 9: My Skin and Me

• Functions of skin

• The role your skin plays in taking care of you

• Sense of touch

• What is skin made of and how it grows

• How do parts of the skin help one another

• Health habits to promote healthy growth of skin and hair

• Reasons why bodies have hair or nails

• Differences in the appearance of skin

• Respect for people whose skin looks different

• Activities that strengthen self esteem

• What are things about people you know that make them special

• Injuries and conditions that harm your skin

• Protecting your skin

• Remedies for your skin